If anything, it's quite the opposite: water, especially salt water, is a paradise for viruses. It's estimated that something like a quarter of all cells that die on Earth are bacteria in the ocean killed by phages. I think maybe what you're sensing is actually more about the rate of human contact: maybe we tend to care less about fish diseases because we'd only really get it from eating uncooked fish (or like, drinking water from a fish tank, which I don't advise).
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Reply to Are there a lot more diseases for land animals than sea creatures? If yes, why? by Bored_Survivor
If anything, it's quite the opposite: water, especially salt water, is a paradise for viruses. It's estimated that something like a quarter of all cells that die on Earth are bacteria in the ocean killed by phages. I think maybe what you're sensing is actually more about the rate of human contact: maybe we tend to care less about fish diseases because we'd only really get it from eating uncooked fish (or like, drinking water from a fish tank, which I don't advise).